In a recent Friends of Bathurst Nature talk in partnership with the U3A in Port Alfred, Japie Buckle, a highly respected restoration ecologist and Managing Director of Hive Ecosystems, shed light on the concept of rewilding and its…
GUY ROGERS The NSPCA, South Africa’s biggest animal welfare organisation, has called for a review of the environment department’s authorisation of CGG’s application to conduct a seismic survey off the coast of the southeastern Cape. The…
Port Alfred has an extremely caring community of people, and none so much as a retired nursing sister who is single-handedly making a difference each day to the animals in Nemato. Shar Coleman goes to Nemato with her bakkie laden with…
It is much rarer than one might think, that the media can actually effect positive action from a ruling authority. Despite years of intense coverage of seemingly endless corruption in government at all levels in South Africa, nothing has…
World-renowned British primatologist Jane Goodall says the coronavirus pandemic was caused by humanity’s disregard for nature and disrespect for animals. Goodall, who is best known for trail-blazing research in Africa that revealed the…
A COUPLE’S heart for abused, neglected and abandoned animals led them to open an animal shelter on their Southwell farm that includes dogs, horses, pigs, a goat, pony and donkey. Johann and Lynne Wilhelm have been running the Retreat 2…
